Weekend Update 4/23/23

[glenng6]

ENLIST in STAR FLEET!

Scenes From the Atlantic County 4-H Train Show - Part I

I'll post some photos of the Atlantic County 4-H Train Show over the next two days.
Multiple clubs participated

Heavy Traffic on the Highway

Rick, I have to say, at first, I thought the highway scene was Kalifornia after an earth quake and then realized the highway was actually level. Very nice modeling. Glenn

[glenng6]

I have to say there is some fantastic modeling in this thread. Keep it up! You guys inspire me and depress me at the same time. But I need more. Glenn

[nkalanaga]

Glenng6:  They're much less common, but the Northeast can have major quakes as well!

[John]

Working on my FreemoN module for this weekends Timonium show .. The entire structure is 3D printed on an Anycubic Mono .. still a lot of details and touch up to do after the show




The inspiration

https://railpictures.net/photo/805473/





https://railpictures.net/photo/800737/

[chuck geiger]

Good God Gertrude...Some fine work up in here this weekend.

[Virginia Atlantic]

That is the old alignment; the bridge was on more of an angle to the front of the benchwork and went through an 'S' curve at the north end.  After shortening this section there wont be room for the 'S' curve so I had to take it out and mark out a new alignment for the bridge and approaches.  The old alignment will eventually be concealed by scenery.

Tim

It might be cool to only partially conceal it, i.e. model it as what it is, an old alignment now abandoned for the new updated alignment.

Prototype roads make these kind of changes all the time, and there are always archeological remnants of the old alignments left in place even after the rails themselves are gone.

This might give you an opportunity to model such a scene, and have a minor spot of interest alongside the larger interest area of the bridge itself.

I always find options like that give a model railroad some history, just like the prototypes themselves have everywhere you could care to look.

Great work btw.

[Pomperaugrr]

I only had time for one small project this weekend.  I finished the canopy from the old gas station, where the used car dealership is now, near the New Milford, CT train station. 

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[MK]

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Unfortunately I did not take my usual plethora of photos this year.  This is the only one I took.  Many same modules that I had shot previously or elsewhere (like Amherst).  It would just clog up my hard drive.

I'm holding out for Altoona and I will have more time there to shoot.  Hopefully some new stuff.

[chuck geiger]

SSW Tank Car weathered and then shot with IPA. Some more springs in, @lemonsteam is right, they are springy little bastards. Second grade crossing is in.

[Cajonpassfan]

....shot with IPA? I'm not sure I understand...what does the IPA do?
Thanks, Otto K.

[chuck geiger]

Boomer Dioramas will paint with Tamiya paint, airbrushed and come back and shoot 99% isopropyl alcohol. He calls it
IPA strip weathering. Nice effect.

[chuck geiger]

It's also very forgiving for weathering errors.

[glenng6]

Glenng6:  They're much less common, but the Northeast can have major quakes as well!

nkalanaga,
Well, I am almost 76 and lived in Toronto, suburbs of New York City and Eastern Pennsylvania. So far I haven't experienced any earthquakes and hope to continue that trend. That could certainly ruin your day. Glenn

[DirtyD79]

nkalanaga,
Well, I am almost 76 and lived in Toronto, suburbs of New York City and Eastern Pennsylvania. So far I haven't experienced any earthquakes and hope to continue that trend. That could certainly ruin your day. Glenn

I live in western PA and the last earthquake I remember hearing about was 12 years ago. I was at work at the time and didn't notice it. Interestingly though a friend of mine had a tornado touch down a few blocks away from his house over in Greensburg, PA a few months later. Him and his family were fine but I imagine that had to be scary.

[Dwight in Toronto]

My area of the globe (Toronto/southern Ontario, so kinda north-eastish) does indeed experience the occasional earthquake.   

They are very mild and short lived, but noticeable (tall houseplants might sway, slight china rattles, my office chair on wheels once moved an inch or two to-&-fro). 

Interestingly, these quakes are due to isostatic rebound.  In short, the earth’s crust in these areas had previously been depressed, for exceedingly long periods of time, by massive glacial ice sheets over one mile high.  The ice melted long ago, but the crust is still rebounding, hence the minor vertical bumps that we (rarely) experience as almost-insignificant quakes.  Quite different than the slip-fault quakes that can be horrifically destructive in plate subduction zones. 

(Two minute dissertation, courtesy of a humble BSc Geology, UofT - retired!)